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Chambers Bay Replaces Greens, Will Re-Open in March PRESORT STD FREE NOVEMBER U.S. Postage PAID COPY 2018 ISSUE THE SOURCE FOR NORTHWEST GOLF NEWS Port Townsend, WA Permit 262 Lummi Nation Tribe buys Loomis Trail Golf Course Lummi Nation Indian Tribe has gotten into the Pacific Northwest golf business by buying Loomis Trail Golf Course. The sale includes the 18-hole golf course, hotel and restaurant. Sale price was reported for $3.75 million. The tribe will run the course as a daily-fee golf course. For more, please see inside this section of Inside Golf Newspaper. WHAT’S NEW Chambers Bay replaces greens, will re-open in March Chambers Bay will replace its fine fescue putting surfaces with perennial Poa annua in a decision that will immediately improve daily playing conditions and IN NW GOLF ensure the ability to conduct an exemplary USGA Championship in 2021, officials for Chambers Bay recently announced. Chambers Bay — site of the 2021 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, 2015 U.S. Open and the 2010 U.S. Amateur championships — The course closed in October and will re-open March 19, 2019. Oregon Mudders expanding The ongoing turfgrass project will provide long-term benefits to the facility, which is an important asset to the community and region, according to Matt Al- into FootGolf and more len, General Manager. Chambers Bay is owned by Pierce County and operated by For over 20 years the Oregon Mudders has KemperSports. been keeping Northwest golfer’s feet warm and In early 2017, turfgrass health issues surfaced on three putting greens (No. 7, dry during the cold winter outings but now the No. 10, and No. 13), and the decision was made to re-sod those greens with a local parent company called Thrifty Golf Supply has source of Poa annua. Results of that sod work prompted conversations between expanded its product line to include FootGolf KemperSports, Pierce County, and the USGA about the prospect of re-surfacing products, Wolff Golf Gloves, clubs and more. every green. By the end of the year, consensus had been reached that such a project Complete FootGolf sets are available for would not only ensure better putting surfaces for future championships, but would home tournament play. Everything necessary improve the every-day experience. for a 3-hole home set including 8 custom made Chambers Bay is replacing its greens with poa annua and will re-open in March. FootGolf balls, flags, signage, cups and even FootGolf footwear. They also carry equipment for tournament play. See more about Oregon Home Course: Northwest course a favorite for variety of reasons Mudders inside this issue. Inactive posting season starts on November 14 As you may know, the Washington State Golf Association and Oregon Golf Association both observe an inactive score posting season during which rounds played in the area are never acceptable for handicap computational purposes. Most of the golf associations in the Northern areas of the U.S. are seasonal golf associations like the WSGA and OGA and also observe an inactive score posting period. For the WSGA and OGA, the inactive score posting period runs from November 14th to the last day of February. Scores posted on the computer at the home club are never transmitted to GHIN and are automatically deleted by GHIN on March 1st every year. The automatic deletion by GHIN happens to Home Scores only. Other types of The Home Course in DuPont, Wash, has been popular with golfers since it opened in 2007. The course is owned scores, Away, Internet, Tournament, Penalty or Combined posted during the inactive score by the WSGA and PNGA and has hosted several regional and national championships. See inside for more. posting period are not automatically deleted by GHIN. Should a club wish to allow their members to continue to post home scores during the inactive Professionals, amateurs all square at annual Hudson Cup season, the WSGA staff informs the club, before activating the inactive season posting option at Tie was the operative word at the 70th edi- GHIN for the club, that the club should monitor tion of the Hudson Cup matches, the Pacific all scores posted during the inactive season Northwest’s version of the Ryder Cup with the and should they find unacceptable scores in a top professionals and amateurs squaring off at members file, the scores must be deleted by Overlake Country Club in Medina, Wash. the clubs. The matches ended tied with a two-day point total of 10 to 10 points. In the 27th edition of the Senior Hudson Cup, the matches also finished in a tie with a two-day point total of 10 to 10. Rules Quiz The Charles Congdon Award went to Nick You are playing a golf course located in Mandell (voted on by the professional team) a desert area. In the rough and out of the and the Larry Lamberger Award was presented fairway there are areas of sand throughout. to Darren Black (voted on by the amateur team). The Committee has expanded the embed- In the Senior Matches, The Bill Eggers Award ded ball Rule 25-3 to “through the green”. You find your golf ball embedded in sand in was presented to Erik Hanson (voted on by the the rough. Now what? See page 2. senior professional team) while Bruce Stewart was bestowed the Bob McKendrick Award (voted on by the senior amateur team). Darren Black Erik Hanson • Page 2 • • InsIde Comments • • Inside Golf - November Issue 2018 • From the tour to the teaching studio, Fehr is ready for his new role in golf If you happen to wander in to the new Pro Golf thing of the past. Fehr did try the Champions Tour Discount store in Bellevue, you might see a familiar for a couple of years, playing on an exemption in face working in a back teaching studio. If that face 2012-2013 and part of 2014, but he struggled happens to look like former PGA Tour player Rick because of an injury to his back. It was painful to Fehr, you would be spot on. swing a golf club. Bob Marlatt The 56-year-old Fehr is settling into his new Now, those injuries are healed and he is ready Publisher role as a PGA teaching professional at Pro Golf to play again. He wants to tee it up in some major Discount, which opened a new facility recently. Part tournaments around the Pacific Northwest next Steve Turcotte of that facility is a teaching studio for Fehr, complete spring and summer. And, who knows, maybe a trip Editor-Advertising with multiple video screens and the latest in VI Pro Steve back to a Champions Tour event now and then in HD video analysis. 2019. Turcotte Kathy Marlatt Fehr played on the PGA Tour for years, winning “I love to compete,” Fehr said. “I will work on Operations Manager twice - the first at the BC Open in 1986 and then my swing in the winter and see where it goes from again claiming the Walt Disney World Classic in that I’ve enjoyed for years.” there. If the game is good maybe I can try and qualify Contributing Writers 1994. As an amateur, there weren’t many better Fehr is the perfect kind of golf teacher. He has for something bigger.” Jeff Coston, Russ Wing, than Fehr when he was growing up in the state of played the game at the highest level and has plenty Washington. He won the 1982 Western Amateur of patience to work with new golfers. Steve Turcotte is editor of Inside Golf Newspaper. Photography: Scott Bisch and was the low amateur at both The Masters and But that doesn’t mean that tournament golf is a He can be reached at [email protected]. Cartoonist: Harold Bluestein the U.S. Open in 1984. Fehr turned pro in 1985, winning in his second Subscription rates: year on tour. He made a solid living on tour, and $17-one year and $30-two years (U.S. even tried the Champions Tour before injuries set funds). him back and he decided to try something else. He started teaching in 2003 at the Golf Club at Unsolicited articles and photos are wel- Newcastle before moving to the TPC Scottsdale come, however we will accept no liability for 12 years. Along the way he also got into the for their loss or damage, and will only sports agent business, representing other golfers return them if prior arrangements have in interests off the course. been made with the publisher. The competitive fire still burns in Fehr, and now that his back and other injuries seem to be OK he Courier Address would like to play competitively. He will down the 460 Dennis Blvd road, but for now, it’s all about the teaching. Port Townsend, WA 98368 “The great thing about teaching is the chance to watch people improve their golf games,” said Fehr. Mailing Address “I had my chance in the golf game, and now I want P.O. Box 1890 to give back and help others with their games.” Port Townsend, WA 98368 At his new studio inside the Pro Golf Discount facility, Fehr thinks he can do wonders for golfers. Phone He has just about every new piece of technology (360) 379-4080 to help people figure out what is wrong with their swings and see results when they take it outside. E-mail Address “I’ve been lucky to achieve my goals in golf,” [email protected] said Fehr. “It’s time to keep giving back to the game Former PGA Tour player Rick Fehr is now a PGA Teaching Professional at Pro Golf in Bellevue.
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